Louise Adler and four board members resign as university decides to change direction
Melbourne University Publishing’s CEO and members of its board of directors have resigned in protest against the university’s proposed new strategy for the publishing house that, according to one former board member, would render it “narrow” and “cloistered”.
Louise Adler, MUP’s CEO and the powerhouse personality behind the publishing house since 2003, has put in her resignation, along with four members of its board of directors including the chairman, Laurie Muller, the former NSW premier Bob Carr, the former president of the Australian Human Rights Commission Gillian Triggs, and Tony Peake, effective Thursday. Danny Gorog, whose term on the board ends on the same day, will also step down. The rest of the board continues in their roles.
If you're @unimelb student or staff: Ask serious questions about value your university places upon editorial independence. Ask serious questions about decisions being made. & ask yourself questions we're taught at journalism school: WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE AND WHY? @MUPublishing
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About Louise Adler, who has resigned from MUP because of truly gobsmacking editorial pressure from uni mgment. When I wrote a column in May 2017 she texted that weekend and said: "You have a book in you." I had that book in me for two decades. She saw it, she published it.
This is big news in Australian publishing circles. MUP and @louiseadler are outstanding commissioners and editors of books and wonderful mentors to their authors; even the clueless first-timers like me. https://t.co/z3pwaLbxXj
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